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former president george w. bush wants to know what would you have done. it's part of a new interactive theater presented in the george w. bush presidential library to be dedicated this thursday. find out how you can answer the president by checking out my facebook page. >>> five people were killed during a shooting at an apartment complex in seattle including the suspect. officers could hear gunshots when they arrived at the scene. no cops were injured. >>> the mississippi river or as it is near its crest now and dropping. more rain is in the forecast with 41 counties declared disaster areas and three betdea blamed on that flooding. >>> investigators are trying to determine what caused the explosion at the fertilizer plant. 14 people were killed. 200 injured. >>> a massive rescue operation still under way in china's sichuan provincprovince. >>> a hearing will focus on evidence against paul kevin curtis. he says he's not guilty. >>> reese witherspoon says she's deeply embarrassed. the actress was arrested for disorderly conduct because she wouldn't stay in
former president george w. bush wants to know what would you have done. it's part of a new interactive theater presented in the george w. bush presidential library to be dedicated this thursday. find out how you can answer the president by checking out my facebook page. >>> five people were killed during a shooting at an apartment complex in seattle including the suspect. officers could hear gunshots when they arrived at the scene. no cops were injured. >>> the mississippi...
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george w. bush had an approval rating in the low 30s. he had 78% of americans against the -- he had nancy pelosi as a speaker of the house. george w. bush -- i know the bush library is opening up -- this is a study of contrast. the statement that it's better to be feared than loved is born out in the examples of george w. bush and barack obama, because legislators knew that george w. bush was going to get his way or he was going to beat them up. bush, time and time and time again in 2007 and 2008, when his approval ratings were at their lowest, he got what he wanted because congressman or a senator in either party knew that -- >> and barack obama got it on health care. not a different human being. >> that they would be destroyed if they didn't give bush what he wanted, that he was going to use everything he could use in his arsenal to get what he needed. >> we don't disagree. i feel this and i share your frustration. i share maureen's. i think maureen is right. i just don't know if a senator from north dakota who wants to stay now as a s
george w. bush had an approval rating in the low 30s. he had 78% of americans against the -- he had nancy pelosi as a speaker of the house. george w. bush -- i know the bush library is opening up -- this is a study of contrast. the statement that it's better to be feared than loved is born out in the examples of george w. bush and barack obama, because legislators knew that george w. bush was going to get his way or he was going to beat them up. bush, time and time and time again in 2007 and...
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you write about former president george w. bush's thoughtfulness. you mention a note he wrote. and in part you say this, quote. >> okay, bush's note spoke volumes about his respect for the office of the presidency. he was touched by the small measure of respect we showed for our country. he remembered names of spouses and children of his staff and insisted that hard work at the white house not be an excuse to let family life suffer. his record as commander in chief will be a long debated as it should be. bush insisted upon meeting u.s. troops and their families in private so he could give them undivided attention for as much time we spend understanding our president's policies and politics, relatively little effort is spent trying to understand them as people. we mythologyize them as candidates denying our leaders the bond that soothes mere mortals, benefit of the doubt. wow. >> what a great line. >> i had to look up soothe. >> it makes you think. >> george w. bush who has been demonized and governed through some of the most divisive years in a century. >> he's going to be reme
you write about former president george w. bush's thoughtfulness. you mention a note he wrote. and in part you say this, quote. >> okay, bush's note spoke volumes about his respect for the office of the presidency. he was touched by the small measure of respect we showed for our country. he remembered names of spouses and children of his staff and insisted that hard work at the white house not be an excuse to let family life suffer. his record as commander in chief will be a long debated...
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w. bush library and museum. i will be down there and on "today" matt lauer will have is a live interview with the former president and mrs. bush. coming up here after the break, our special edition of "meet the press" continues with our roundtable, tom brokaw, doris kearns goodwin, peggy noonan, ♪ sweet caroline never seemed so good ♪ >>> in boston you stay calm, you carry on, and you go to the red sox and sing "sweet caroline." doris kearns goodwin is here. she was not at the game but she would have been singing. joining me for our roundtable, "wall street journal's" columnist peggy noonan, columnist for bloomberg and writer for "the atlantic" jeffrey goldberg, nbc's tom brokaw and the presidential historian and bostonian doris kearns goodwin. what a week and, you know, the headline of the nightmare's end on saturday morning was fitting, wasn't it? >> what was so striking about the week is patriots day is boston's holiday, my hometown. nothing we love more than it because it combine
w. bush library and museum. i will be down there and on "today" matt lauer will have is a live interview with the former president and mrs. bush. coming up here after the break, our special edition of "meet the press" continues with our roundtable, tom brokaw, doris kearns goodwin, peggy noonan, ♪ sweet caroline never seemed so good ♪ >>> in boston you stay calm, you carry on, and you go to the red sox and sing "sweet caroline." doris kearns goodwin is...
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w. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. e-trade. less for us. more for you. >>> this >>> this sunday a special edition of "meet the press." after the terror in boston, a frenzied, violent manhunt. now the way forward and the broader question about securing america. [ cheers and applause ] >>> the nightmare ends for the boston area, but the president says there is much more to learn. >> why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities in our country resort to such violence? how did they plan and carry out these attacks? and did they receive any help? the families of those killed deserve answers. >> did the tsarnaev brothers have ties to foreign terror groups? how was their past to violence missed especially since the fbi tracked and interviewed the older brother two years ago? this morning the latest on the investigation and the way forward. joining us massachusetts governor deval patrick, nbc's justice correspondent pete williams, chairman of the house intellig
w. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. e-trade. less for us. more for you. >>> this >>> this sunday a special edition of "meet the press." after the terror in boston, a frenzied, violent manhunt. now the way forward and the broader question about securing america. [ cheers and applause ] >>> the nightmare ends for the boston area, but the president says there is much more to learn. >> why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our...
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a lot of what we saw under the prior administration, under george w. bush, was the argument that terror makes everything different, i.e., you have less rights. in rah suel and hamdi, we saw a relatively conservative supreme court ultimately tell president bush, no, you can't twist like that just because it's terrorism. >> michael, that seems like the danger in calling it terror, right? there was an immediate impulse, make sure president obama is calling it terror. lindsey graham sweet twooetieet telling him to remain silent. that would be the last thing. somehow terrorism makes it fine, right? >> we don't really know if this is terrorism. we don't know if there's political motivations. >> we don't know. we have to establish the definition of terror. everybody was terrorized. the political definition is something else. secondly, john ralston said imagine if you're the person subjected to the recriminations you want to put forth. be very careful if something happens in your family and your kid does something and your kid is on the terror list and the no-
a lot of what we saw under the prior administration, under george w. bush, was the argument that terror makes everything different, i.e., you have less rights. in rah suel and hamdi, we saw a relatively conservative supreme court ultimately tell president bush, no, you can't twist like that just because it's terrorism. >> michael, that seems like the danger in calling it terror, right? there was an immediate impulse, make sure president obama is calling it terror. lindsey graham sweet...